Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-527) and index.
Contents:
Chronology of Boccaccio's life and works / Victoria Kirkham -- Introduction: a man of many turns / Janet Levarie Smarr -- The vernacular master. Also known as "Prencipe Galeotto" (Decameron) / Ronald L. Martinez ; The textual history of the Decameron / Brian Richardson -- The autodidact. Moments of Latin poetry (Carmina) / Giuseppe Velli ; A fable of the world's creation and Phaeton's fall (Allegoria mitologica) / Steven M. Grossvogel ; A portrait of a young humanist (Epistolae 1-4) / Jason Houston -- Classical romances. Love-struck in Naples (Filostrato) / David Wallace ; A lovers' tale and auspicious beginning (Filocolo) / Elissa Weaver ; The girl outside the window (Teseida delle nozze d'Emilia) / Michael Sherberg -- Allegorical terza rima. The game of love (Caccia di Diana) / Arielle Saiber ; Mural morality in Tableaux vivants (Aamorosa visione) / Jonathan Usher -- New pastorals. On the threshold of paradise (Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine, or Ameto) / Jane Tylus ; Myth and history: toward a new order (Ninfale fiesolano) / Susanna Barsella ; The changing landscape of the self (Buccolicum carmen) / David Lummus -- Woman and women. An experiment in the healing power of literature (Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta) / Annelise M. Brody ; Rhetoric and invective in love's labyrinth (Il corbaccio) / Letizia Panizza ; Doing and undoing: Boccaccio's feminism (De mulieribus claris) / Deanna Shemek -- Devotion to Dante and Petrarch. A life in progress (De vita et moribus Francisci Petracchi de Florentia) / Giuseppe Mazzotta -- To praise Dante, to please Petrarch (Trattatello in laude di Dante) / Elsa Filosa ; Boccaccio's divided allegiance (Esposizioni sopra la "comedia") / Robert Hollander -- Historian and humanist. Gods, greeks, and poetry (Genealogia deorum gentilium) / Jon Solomon ; Boccaccio on fortune (De casibus virorum illustrium) / Simone Marchesi -; Vernacularization in context (Volgarizzamenti of Livy, Valerius Maximus, and Ovid) / Alison Cornish -- Geographical explorations. Boccaccio's humanistic ethnography (De canaria) / James L. Coleman ; Between text and territory (De montibus, silvis, fontibus, lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis -- Seu paludibus et de diversis nominibus maris) / Theodore J. Cachey Jr -- Miscellanies: lyrics, letters, notebooks. Pathways through the lyric forest (Rime) / Roberto Fedi ; Personality and conflict (Epistole, lettere) / Todd Boli ; Boccaccio's working notebooks (Zibaldone laurenziano, miscellanea laurenziana -- Zibaldone magliabechiano) / Claude Cazalé-Bérard -- Epilogue -- A visual legacy (Boccaccio as artist) / Victoria kirkham -- An intimate self-portrait (Testamentum) / Michael Papio.
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